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Each year millions of Muslims make the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, fulfilling the obligation that all Muslims visit Islam's holiest city at least once in their lives, if they are physically and financially able.
During the five-day hajj, pilgrims perform a series of religious rites along a 12-kilometre route, including the ritual "Stoning of the Devil" at Jamaraat Bridge in nearby Mina.
There was a time when this was considered the most perilous part of the hajj, given the surging crowds on the narrow pedestrian bridge, which occasionally led to stampedes. As the numbers kept growing, the Saudi government sought ways to ensure the safety of worshipers that would also preserve the sanctity of the religious site.
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In 2006 Saudi authorities decided to demolish the existing bridge and start from scratch. They asked Otis to design a state-of-the-art system for moving as many as 300,000 pilgrims an hour up and across the new bridge safely, efficiently and reliably.
The new Jamaraat Bridge, completed in 2009, features five levels, a column-free interior space and 328 Otis escalators: 28 in each of the bridge's 11 towers, plus another 20 that provide external access to the bridge. The bridge is also equipped with six passenger elevators, two ambulance elevators and two helipad elevators.
During the hajj season, escalators operate round-the-clock. Pilgrims cross the bridge multiple times on successive days to complete the ritual. During the 2017 hajj, the escalators carried an estimated total of 12.5 to 15 million passengers.
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During the ritual "Stoning of the Devil," pilgrims symbolically re-enact the Prophet Abraham's response when Satan tempted him to ignore God's command to sacrifice his son Isaac. He pelted Satan with stones to drive him off. At the last moment, God stayed Abraham's hand, sparing Isaac and substituting a ram in his place. According to tradition, the Jamaraat Bridge is the site of this confrontation. It is constructed around three pillars that represent Satan. In throwing pebbles at the pillars, pilgrims affirm their obedience to God and denounce evil. Remembering how Isaac was spared, pilgrims also slaughter a sheep, goat, cow or camel - or, more likely, they pay for it to be done in their name.
In weighing design proposals for the new Jamaraat Bridge, Saudi authorities consulted with Keith Still, a professor of crowd science at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. Still says the crowd density at the old bridge was exceptionally dangerous during the hajj - as many as 11 to 15 people per square meter. "Any trip, slip or fall in that environment could be fatal," he says. On the new bridge, it's just one person per square meter.
The new bridge features three jamrah pillars many times longer than their pre-2006 predecessors to reduce congestion while pilgrims are performing the stoning ritual. Saudi authorities also issued a fatwa decreeing that the ritual could be performed between sunrise and sunset rather than only at midday.
The new bridge features more than 500 closed-circuit television cameras, monitored by dozens of security officers on the lookout for any sign of trouble.
"It is an immense responsibility," Col. Khakled Qarar Mohammadi, head of the emergency forces at the site, told CNN in 2009.
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If Vince Vaughn puts any effort into what he's doing, it doesn't show, which is perhaps one of the benefits of always appearing to be hungover. The man probably has to check the bags under his eyes at the airport, and he's about as in shape as a toddler's fistful of Play-Doh. This is no doubt why audiences dig him; he is us, dude, and we am him. Onscreen, he looks like any other buddy who'd loan you a smoke, buy you a beer, or give you a call when he needs to get bailed out of jail. He's no more or less than a giant schlub of a man, someone who got tall enough to look like he ought to be selling frozen peas in jolly green bags but stopped maturing around the time he finally realized he wasn't gonna last through his eighth year of college. He's a role model for every guy who ever dreamed of living in his parents' basement till he was 35.
In Wedding Crashers, a movie about two guys who troll for tail during strangers' nuptials and stretches its sketch-comedy premise into epic proportions (two hours, sweet Lord), Vaughn doesn't even give costar Owen Wilson a chance to own a piece of the property. It's all his, even when Vaughn isn't onscreen; we're forced to bide our time till his return, because any scene featuring just Wilson and his would-be lover (Rachel McAdams) is slower than a turtle in a bear trap. Vaughn stakes his claim from the jump, in an opening scene featuring Dwight Yoakam and Rebecca De Mornay as a splintering couple feuding over frequent-flier miles. Vaughn and Wilson -- as Jeremy Klein and John Beckwith, respectively -- are there to mediate their dispute, but instead Vaughn delivers a long-winded, mile-a-second monologue about how beautiful weddings inevitably lead to the husband's screwing mistresses in Denver motel rooms and the wife's wiping her Latin lover's sweat off her naked bod. He rambles and ambles for what feels like minutes, and the scene plays as though wholly improvised -- not even Vaughn seems to know what the hell he's talking about.
He does it again one scene later, informing the female assistant trying to fix him up that dating only leads to the uncomfortable end-of-the-evening "ass-out hug" and, if you're really lucky, a game of "just the tip," referring, of course, to how far a man should insert his penis into his date. The woman ought to be appalled, but she just stands there glassy-eyed, bemused and confused by what she's heard. But what else can she expect from a man who has set up an open bar behind his desk? The poor woman, like Wilson and everyone else in the film (even Christopher Walken, as the US Treasury secretary), is just there to play straight man to a schmuck who is seriously bent.
Wedding Crashers, whose director, David Dobkin, has worked with both Wilson (Shanghai Knights) and Vaughn (Clay Pigeons) before, is that rarest of entities in these appalling appeal-to-everyone days of moviemaking, when studios rip the guts and nuts from their comedies to lure in that cheap teen coin. It flaunts its R rating -- Vaughn and Wilson punctuate their sentences with more fucks than a porn movie -- and recalls the heyday of National Lampoon's Animal House, Caddyshack, and Stripes, comedies made for grown-ups who still giggled like preteens. It's to be celebrated for its fearlessness, for being so wrong that it can't help but feel right to laugh at Vaughn when he says, after a night of particularly rough sex with his nutty wannabe lover Gloria (Isla Fisher), "I felt like Jodie Foster in The Accused last night."
The movie has two problems, one of which is that it indulges in what's becoming an irritating trait in movies starring Vaughn and at least one of the Wilson brothers: the pointless cameo of an actor who, when he appears onscreen, isn't so much a surprise as he is a groaning distraction. (You'll know who it is long before he emerges from the shadow; just this sentence alone probably gives it away. No, it's not Ben Stiller. Could have been, though.) Its other flaw, which is significantly more fatal, is that Wedding Crashers goes on far, far too long. (The thing has more false endings than all three Lord of the Rings movies combined.) It begins with too much of a bang -- an orgiastic montage, set to "Shout," in which the boys crash a handful of weddings and crash into bed with a handful of topless women -- and winds down with too much of a whimper. It's almost as though the movie becomes ashamed of its actions and feels the need to apologize for having too good a time; it all but flagellates itself by giving into so much True Love, you'd be forgiven for feeling truly disappointed. Here's a tip: When Vaughn and Wilson are outed as impostors and forced to leave Walken's estate, grab your stuff and walk out. You'll think you just saw a comedy masterpiece.
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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Did anyone run in the Seoul Marathon? Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Did anyone run in the Seoul Marathon? Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message ZackbackJoined: 05 Nov 2010Location: Kyungbuk Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 12:44 pm Post subject: Did anyone run in the Seoul Marathon? http://news.yahoo.com/athletics-kenyas-kwambai-defends-seoul-marathon-title-102543789--spt.html Nov 4 (Reuters) - James Kwambai stormed to victory in the Seoul Marathon for the second year running on Sunday, winning by almost five minutes to lead a Kenyan 1-2-3. The 29-year-old won his fourth marathon in a time of two hours, five minutes and 50 seconds and was wrapped up and getting warm by the time countryman Chebon Chebor crossed the line in 2:10:24. Benjamin Kolum took third place with a time of 2:10:35. Kwambai, who picked up $50,000 for the victory, finished runner-up in the Seoul International Marathon earlier this year behind another Kenya, Wilson Loyanae. Kim Young-in was host South Korea's highest-placed finisher on Sunday, trailing home ninth in 2:17:00. (Reporting by Alastair Himmer in Tokyo; Editing by Peter Rutherford) Back to top tardisriderJoined: 13 Mar 2003Location: Seoul Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 1:18 pm Post subject: What do you mean "did anyone run"? Your very post lists several people who ran in the Seoul Marathon. Do you think they were the only ones? Back to top ZackbackJoined: 05 Nov 2010Location: Kyungbuk Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 1:21 pm Post subject: The article didn't report about anyone else running so it wants us to believe just those three ran it so I am wondering if anyone on Dave's ran it so I can prove the article wrong and brag to my students how clever I was in figuring this out. Back to top T-JJoined: 10 Oct 2008Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 3:52 pm Post subject: Reading fail. According to the quote you provided at least ten ran. Back to top SmithingtonJoined: 14 Dec 2011 Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 4:20 pm Post subject: God I can't imagine running in a marathon in Seoul. The pollution. It's difficult enough breathing here whilwe walking. Back to top hogwonguy1979Joined: 22 Dec 2003Location: the racoon den Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 11:11 pm Post subject: I knew a lot of people who ran it and I was there for some of the finish, its the third biggest marathon in Korea after Seoul International and Chuncheon (which was last week), gets around 15-20,000 runners Back to top ren546Joined: 17 Dec 2010 Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:54 am Post subject: Smithington wrote: God I can't imagine running in a marathon in Seoul. The pollution. It's difficult enough breathing here whilwe walking. It's not as bad as it used to be (Seoul has been working quite hard to reduce pollutants), and if you time your runs properly (e.g. evening, NOT during rush hour, or days when you can taste/see it in the air), it's not really noticeable. I have mild asthma, run 4 days a week, and have yet to be too troubled by it. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion Forum All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Forums:----------------FAQJob-related Discussion ForumGeneral Discussion ForumOff-Topic ForumTravel ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumBuy/Sell/Trade Forum You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group TEFL International Supports Dave's ESL Cafe


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A Greek Portfolio - 50 Years Later
May 30, 2013
by Constantine Manos
In a new exhibition honoring the great photographer Constantine Manos, the Benaki Museum presents a tribute to his multi-awarded A Greek Portfolio.
Childhood experiences are deeply affecting, and at times, can direct us to a voyage of discovery later in life. For Constantine Manos, it was the story of his parents' lost Eden on the island of Afisia in the Sea of Marmara that fueled his imagination. It was a life they lost, along with all their belongings, in the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey in 1923. Immigrants to the U.S., Manos' parents' longed for their past village life, which prompted him to travel, discover and record the rural life of Greece in the early 1960's.
What initially may have been a nostalgic and perhaps even romantic notion of a return to his family's roots lead Manos to the villages and isles of Greece to confront a reality of poverty, isolation, and ingrained traditions. He followed the unchanging cycles of toil, hardship, celebration, and the rituals of departure. Through this, he wove a tapestry of warm humanity and benighted solace. It is a poetic transformation of the daily (and sometimes harsh) existence into images of magical moments. With introspection and humility, he allows his protagonists to disclose themselves. And through the timing of the shutter and his classical compositions, he leads us to truths and meanings that are universal.
His approach is so refined and subtle that many people stay only at the surface of the ethnographic aspect of the work. And while that will prove valuable with time, it remains the outer clothing of the soul of a people whose perseverance, pride, dignity, and core values are revealed. Manos beautifully exposes this human complexity with utter simplicity and a lack of artifice.
Of course, it is within the humanistic photographic tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson in which Manos functions. He brings to every image a myriad of connotations and unique details to each remote area of the country. He shows us how these peoples--of the sea and the land--struggle within the environment that is their particular destiny. While simultaneously closing, in prints of great beauty, the chapter of rural life in Greece.
There is a unique opportunity here in this celebration of Manos' 50 years of A Greek Portfolio. This exhibition provides the public the rare chance to see the wide range of images that were edited out of the book by the photographer, but whose variety and depth and truly impressive, in addition to all the book's famous images.
Capturing the one magical moment in a single image is crucial and critical for every photographer. Editing and deciding which image tells its story best is equally important. Thus, the full disclosure of images taken provide us with a more wholesome understanding of the photographer's process of selection and method of working and thinking.
In this way, Manos has not only made an invaluable donation to the Benaki Museum, but has, with an open heart, given us a vision of what we, as a rural nation, once were.
John Demos, Curator
For the 50th anniversary of the creation of the multi-award winning A Greek Portfolio, Constantine Manos re-examines the images he took during the years 1961-64 (and ones he added in 1967), when he wandered his ancestral land in a manner that was "leisurely and unplanned, that of a friendly observer," and offers us a different take on his material. In the first section of the exhibit, we present a series of original prints from the images that Manos himself selected in 1972 for the book. In the second section, images were chosen from 219 original prints that the artist recently donated to the Photographic Archive of the Benaki Museum, which were not included in the layout of A Greek Portfolio. Together, in totality, these two sections present a worthwhile sample of Manos' artistic intent. Although they have not had the same exposure, the images that are revealed for the first time reflect the uniqueness of the land and its inhabitants, in no small part due to his poetic abilities. The manner in which he approaches his subjects stands out from the prevailing photographic trends of his time, and operates as a starting point for new photographers as they attempt to capture the Greek countryside.
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The two Seacoast rivals will play at the Clippers' Stone Gymnasium with Portsmouth owning a 2-0 record against the Bobcats during the regular season.
The catch? The two wins were by a total of five points (52-50, 43-40).
"They played us great both times," said veteran Portsmouth coach Dan Parr. "We were lucky to win."
"Two close games, so they'll have to respect us," said OR coach Dave Nichols. "We have the feeling it's possible (to win).
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Portsmouth led by as many as 14 (31-17) in the second half on Feb. 6 in its own gym, and then hung on to win by three.
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Salmon was in a rut several weeks ago, but has rebounded as of late and played well with 13 points vs. Kennett and 16 against Coe-Brown. Nichols feels she may be the best rebounder in the division.
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Posted: Fri 06 Apr 2012, 07:32
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XBMC 11 Eden
Subject description: xbox media center
Here the new xbmc 11 pet and sfs for ati and nvidia cards:
- intel:
need python:
and drivers vga:
ati drivers 8.951 with catalyst 12.3 and opengl 3.3
(april 2012):
need reboot, not restartwm
nvidia 295.33 with opengl
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need only restartwm
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Posted: Sat 07 Apr 2012, 09:49
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Hey would love to try this pet.
Will this work in lucid 5.2.8?
I have the recomended nvidia drivers installed and it worked in xbmc 10 do I still need to install your divers?
Is there an alternative download link that site tells me I have reached my maximum downloads for today.
Sorry to be a pain
Thanks Andre
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Posted: Sun 08 Apr 2012, 06:37
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Hello Speedyluck
Thanks for providing this. I have been looking for a way to try XBMC with XVBA on a Puppy for some time.
I have set up the SFS version on Lupu 528 and it seems to be working correctly at the first attempt.
The XBMC user interface is pretty incomprehensible so it will take a while before I am sure of what I am doing!
I have tried my two difficult H.264 1920x1080 interlaced DVB TS test recordings, and they both worked perfectly. Nothing else I have tried can do this.
My PC is a Athlon II x2 240 CPU and 785G (RS880G) chipset, and the PC is only taking 46 Watts total wallplug power when playing these videos with XVBA. That is the best yet.
I guess this is from the main development using VAAPI+XVBA. It says 11 pre, Git unknown. Not the latest XBMC-XVBA from FernetMenta and fritsch that does XVBA directly:
Thanks again.
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Very nice.
If only Puppy looked as slick as that.
and the ATI driver cured a Xinerama issue I had with a previous version.
All good.
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Posted: Tue 10 Apr 2012, 11:47
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The drivers are last update from april 2012,
i tried xbmc-xvba without vaapi and it is ok (with last drivers ati and catalyst 12.3)
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Posted: Wed 11 Apr 2012, 04:59
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@ Speedyluck
Thanks for the recent Nvidia drivers, I was going to attempt to compile them myself but was a bit stuck.
Added an alternative host for the Nvidia drivers here:
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Posted: Sun 17 Jun 2012, 19:13
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Subject description: HTPCs - HP Proliant Microservers
Hi Everyone
I have been away from here it seems forever. I have 2 projects currently going.
LinuxMint13 - XBMC
Puppy 528 - XBMC (just started)
Both are being installed on the HP Proliant Server N40L
4 x 2TBs drives with 250Gbs for an operating system
Final build is being played around with ie: Graphic Cards which will end up the best.
Also plan on a pretty old Toshiba Tecra Laptop to do the same.
I have 5 other builds I have done so when I have success all will be posted with Pros/Cons what works best etc.
Getting it to work on the Tecra is a bit of a challenge re the GL drivers.
Will update this post when I have a fully functional Pup working with XBMC !!!
Once that happens I can then incorporate the Astone MP310DT that I use along with my built HTPCs.
Mint13 is giving me some trouble on the HP server so I thought I would go back to my original roots and have a look at what's happening with Puppy. Pleasantly surprised at how far it has come.
Also awaiting my Raspberry PI exciting times ahead.
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Posted: Sat 07 Jul 2012, 01:18
Post subject: Alternate download site required please...
Could someone please post an alternate site for this XBMC 11.0 pet?
I keep getting messages saying that I'm downloading more than two items at once. Yet, I'm not. I'm just using the File Save As option.
I'd love to try XBMC out on Puppy.
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Posted: Sat 07 Jul 2012, 06:37
Post subject: xbmc
My internet is extremly so! I will post the link when its done uploading.
Here's a link to xbmc 10 if you want to try that so long.
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Posted: Tue 11 Sep 2012, 00:37
Post subject: XBMC PVR
I'm using XBMC with no problem. But I can't find any version, which has PVR support integrated. Is there any PET around? Help.
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Posted: Tue 11 Sep 2012, 01:11
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Only two files are now available.
The rest of the presented links won't work anymore
LazY Puppy
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Posted: Thu 13 Sep 2012, 05:50
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Hello bbg
BarryK's latest Precise Puppy beta 6 can install XBMC and all of the dependencies, from the Ubuntu Repo, and it does work. So don't try it without a safety net!
But PVR is still the development branch of XBMC, so you would need to find a suitable version on launchpad.net
I have installed XBMC-XVBA variant from the wsnipex PPA there, and it does work, too.
Since this is your first post here, I guess you are new to Puppy. But if you can find something suitable I can tell you how to add the particular PPA to the Puppy Package Manager, by editing the DISTRO_COMPAT_REPOS file, so that you can install it.
I think the PVR branch is updated monthly.
Note: I don't use XBMC myself, I was only testing out the PPM in Precise Puppy.
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Posted: Tue 18 Sep 2012, 03:39
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Thanks for replay. I will install Precise Puppy. How to add PPA to depositary?
I will use ppa:pulse-eight/pulse. I'm just trying to build my HTPC, and I come over to Puppy. It is awsome and I love it.
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Posted: Tue 18 Sep 2012, 09:14
Post subject: Adding Launchpad PPA to Precise PPM
Hello bbg
To add a PPA to the Package Manager you need to give it the following information, in a specific format:
1: The domain name of the server
2: The full path of the Packages file (which may be text, .gz or .bz2, (it doesn't matter for a PPA as it's small)
3: The first part of the path to the installation files, that is not specified in the Packages file.
4: The title you want for the repo
To get this, open the PPA web page in a browser. Click on "technical details of repo", select "Precise" in the drop down box.
The path it gives is the answer to 3: and you can take 1: from it as well.
To find 2: click on the link and then navigate down the tree until you get to the Packages file. In your case its this:
That is the answer to 2:, but I used Packages.bz2 because that was what the other entries in the package manager had.
Next you need to edit the file /root/.packages/DISTRO_COMPAT_REPOS to add the information. So make a backup copy and then open DISTRO_COMPAT_REPOS in a text editor. It's a bit difficult to follow because there are two very long lines of data. But there are some words desribing what each line consists of.
The first line is 1:|2:|4: and the second is 1:|3:|4: So in your case they are:
Copy and Paste at the end of each relevant line of existing data, but after a space and before the "
Save the file.
Open Package Manager and select: "Configure" and then "update". When it asks, you can skip all of the repos apart from Launchpad, the Ubuntu ones take a long time to process.
When that is finished, restart the Package Manager and select "configure" choose the 3 Ubuntu repos, your Launchpad repo and uncheck the rest. Restart Package Manager.
Select your Launchpad repo on the title bar.
Enter XBMC in the search box and let it search the Launchpad repo. It will display the list of packages there.
Now you are in normal Puppy territory. Get it to download XBMC and its dependencies.
If you click on XBMC - architecture independend data, it will probably pick up xbmc-bin as a dependency.
The Package Manager will search all of the repos for the dependencies, so there will be duplicates in the list. You need to uncheck the ones you don't want. For example, it will find xbmc-bin on Ubuntu Universe and on launchpad. You need to uncheck the Ubuntu one.
I think that XBMC may require 24bit colour, but Puppy defaults to 16 bit. I'm not sure, but that was the last thing I changed before it started working.
If XBMC does not run from its menu entry, find xbmc.bin and run it from the command line and see what errors you get. Also look for the xbmc logfile.
I have written this from memory, apart from the launchpad paths. And I hope I haven't missed any vital steps.
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Grammy-winner and widow of the Notorious B.I.G., Faith Evans, was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor drunken driving Saturday night after she was stopped at a sobriety checkpoint in the Los Angeles area.
Los Angeles Police Department Officer Cleon Joseph confirmed the R&B singers arrest and said she was released Sunday morning on bail and her car was impounded, reported the AP.
Saturday night's incident was not the former "First Lady of Hip Hop's" first run-in with the law.
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Back in 2004, Evans along with husband, Todd Russaw, were arrested on drug possession charges in Atlanta. To avoid going to trial and ultimately jail time, Evans entered a drug-abuse intervention program in 2004, reported MTV.
The singer won a Grammy along with Diddy and 112 for her hit song, "I'll Be Missing You," a tribute to her late husband Christopher Wallace, the Notorious B.I.G.
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JAMIE LYON intends to finish his career at Manly after knocking back a mammoth $3 million-plus deal to immediately join the Gold Coast.
The Titans are desperate to add a strike centre to their line-up after releasing Beau Champion and missing out on Michael Jennings, who signed with the Roosters on Tuesday. Gold Coast officials initially approached Lyon, off contract at the end of the year, about joining them in 2014. However, they fast-tracked their plans in the hope of snaring him immediately with a four-year offer, one of the biggest tabled in NRL history.
However, Lyon said his goal was to finish his career on the northern beaches and hit out at speculation that he wanted an immediate release or had agreed to the Titans' offer.
"I don't want to move at all," Lyon said. "I just want to get the right story across from the start. I don't know why they're going on about this. I was always going to finish this year here and I've always wanted to stay long-term. The [Titans] rang up because they've lost Champion and are trying to find a centre, so they've come to us. At no stage were we going to go up there. We didn't ask for a release at all, it all got blown out of proportion.
"Originally they said they wanted me for '14 or '15, so we said 'no worries' and listened to them. And then they said 2013 – and that's no chance at all. The next minute they're saying that I've asked for a release. I didn't meet [Titans coach John] Cartwright, didn't do anything. It must have come from the Titans, they are obviously the ones pushing it. I've got this year and I want to stay here longer. Even though they are throwing big money, I want to be here."
Social media sites went into meltdown on Friday as speculation raged about Lyon's intentions. The Manly co-captain met Sea Eagles officials to assure them there was no substance to the rumours and the club subsequently put out a press statement to placate concerned fans. The 30-year-old also addressed his teammates about the latest developments.
"I spoke to them all this morning before it all came out, so they knew what was going on," he said. "I spoke to Jason King and told him all about it [afterwards]. I didn't think it would blow out of proportion like this.
"It probably affects [my family] more than me. Especially if people are picking up the paper down the street, it would leave a bad taste in their mouth even though they don't know what's going on. One of the big reasons I want to stay is we've got a good, strong team and they are really good mates of mine."
The developments will add further spice to the round three fixture between Manly and the Gold Coast at Skilled Park on March 23. There is an estimated 230 players off contract at the end of the year, with many of the topliners holding off until there is greater certainty about the salary cap in future years. Lyon headlines a list which includes Jarryd Hayne, Mitchell Pearce, Robbie Farah, Todd Carney and Josh Reynolds.
However, the Titans raid could play in Manly's favour, with the 2011 premiers set to open contract extension talks soon. "I think I've got three or four more years in me and I'm enjoying my footy here with my best mates. I'll stay as long as I can – as long as Manly will have me anyway," Lyon said.
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A businessman who worked at New York-based Intercapital Planning Corp., Ed Fine became widely known from a 9/11 photograph that depicted him covered in dust, napkin held to his nose and mouth while still clutching his briefcase. Head bowed and his dark suit turned a light gray, Fine, then 58, shuffled through ankle-deep debris from the tower that had just collapsed. A clock behind him displayed the time: 10:14 a.m.
Fine was waiting for an elevator on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center when American Airlines Flight 11 struck the building. Thinking a bomb had gone off, Fine and others made their way down the emergency stairs. Fine reached the street and began to walk away from the World Trade Center when the South Tower collapsed at 10:05 a.m., engulfing everything in the area in a cloud of smoke and debris.
There, photographer Stan Honda of Agence France-Presse took his picture, an image used by websites, newspapers and magazines around the world. Days later, a friend told Fine his photo was on the cover of Fortune magazine.
"I was focused in on: I must get uptown, I must keep surviving, I must walk," Fine told the TODAY show. "And I wasn't looking or thinking about anything other than surviving."
Fine, now 68, and his wife have two grown children and a 9-year-old granddaughter. He lives in suburban Watchung, N.J.
"I'm very private," Fine told msnbc.com. "Not many people find me."
Fine told NBC New York he has saved everything he was wearing on Sept. 11, 2001, when photographer Stan Honda snapped a photo of him walking away from the twin towers covered in dust and debris, and holding a cloth over his mouth. The photograph later became an iconic image from the day of the attacks.
"I didn't want anyone to take my picture," Fine told NBC New York. "I didn't stop and pose for that picture and I had no idea that the picture had been taken."
Fine says he sometimes wishes he hadn't told the photographer his name, though he still communicates regularly with Honda, who now works for Agence France Presse . "He's a genuine, nice guy," Fine told msnbc.com.
Fine won't be going to ground zero on Sept. 11, saying he plans to spend the day at home with his family.
He says he doesn't talk much about his ordeal, unless it comes up in conversations with his granddaughter, Selena.
"She's fascinated," he says. "She thinks I'm famous."
Fine still works, collaborating with Unilife Medical Solutions, a company that manufactures single-use syringes that help protect health care workers from needle injuries.
The battered black briefcase, the suit — a gray Joseph A. Banks single-breasted model he bought in the late '90s for about $300 — and the black leather Cole Haan shoes he wore on 9/11 still sit in Fine's closet. He has also kept his unused, return ferry ticket and his World Trade Center visitor pass.
"There are no words to express how lucky I felt to have survived," he said. "Anything can happen at any time, I'm not going to worry about it."
Rudolph Giuliani (mayor of New York City)
By the summer of 2001, Rudy Giuliani, then 57, was generally viewed as a lame duck.
During his two terms as mayor of New York, Giuliani was a divisive figure who some praised for cracking down on crime and others maligned for attacking civil liberties in his zeal to clean up the city's streets. In addition, there was the tabloids' portrayal of the mayor's messy separation from then-wife Donna Hanover.
All that changed on Sept. 11, 2001, when the polemical politician's leadership following the terrorist attacks cemented his position as a national leader who was named Time's Person of the Year in 2001.
A native New Yorker who grew up in Brooklyn, Giuliani mirrored the city's emotions after the Sept. 11 attacks. His poise, calm and ability to coordinate city agencies and state and federal recovery efforts reassured a shaken city. He gave New Yorkers a sense of confidence in the fact that government agencies, both local and national, were on top of things. And he instilled a sense of pride.
"Tomorrow New York is going to be here," he said. "And we're going to be stronger than we were before…. I want the people of New York to be an example to the rest of the country, and the rest of the world, that terrorism can't stop us."
Now 67, Giuliani divvies up his time between Bracewell & Giuliani, a law firm he joined in 2005, and Giuliani Partners LLC, a management and security consulting business he started in January 2002, where is chairman and CEO. He is also mulling a run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Current New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Giuliani will be among the dignitaries at the World Trade Center site ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
In the years following 9/11, rumors began to swirl that Time's 2001 Person of the Year might run for president. In November 2006, Giuliani formed an exploratory committee and in February 2007 he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination. The campaign, however, soon began to falter, and when Giuliani came in third place in the Florida primary, he decided to drop out of the race, backing John McCain and giving the thumbs-up to Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate.
Giuliani's personal life also continued to make headlines. After finalizing his acrimonious divorce from Hanover in 2002, Giuliani married Judith Nathan in 2003. In addition, Giuliani's relationship with his two children by Hanover has been described as estranged and neither child appeared in the former mayor's presidential campaign literature.
Giuliani has dismissed conjecture that he might run for the senate or for governor of New York, saying he is busy enough as is with his current business ventures.
"My life is interesting," he told the New York Times in December 2009. "It's not as if I'm looking for something interesting to do."
This year, however, Giuliani told the media he was considering another White House bid, telling Politico in July: "My thinking is that I still have time to decide. So I'm going to take it," Giuliani said. "The race is developing very slowly."
Also in July the Associated Press reported that a recent NewHampshirepoll showed Giuliani tied for third for the GOP nomination with Texas Rep. Ron Paul, with both at 7 percent. They were well behind Mitt Romney, who has a commanding lead, and Michele Bachmann. In the meantime, Texas Governor Rick Perry has emerged as a frontrunner.
Despite the low place in the polls, Giuliani said he remained open to the possibility of a presidential run.
"I have a tremendous fire for more public service," Giuliani told the AP. "That's something I feel sort of incomplete about."
Lisa Beamer (widow of Flight 93 victim)
In the aftermath of 9/11, it seemed Lisa Beamer was everywhere. The blond, 32-year-old mother of two boys exuded a calm and grace that belied the fact that she had just lost her husband on Flight 93, the only one of the four hijacked planes that did not reach its target.
The reason that Flight 93 did not crash into the U.S. Capitol or another site in Washington, D.C., is now legend. Due to the heroic acts of many of its passengers, among them Lisa Beamer's husband, Todd, whose words "Let's roll" to a telephone operator captured the nation's imagination, the plane went down near Shanksville, Pa. The event summed up the can-do bravery of the ordinary men and women who fought back against the terrorists.
Beamer, who was five months pregnant on the day of the attacks, appeared repeatedly in the media, from the TODAY show and "Larry King Live" to People magazine. President George W. Bush even introduced Beamer to the country during his address to Congress on Sept. 20, 2001. Beamer made 200 media appearances within the first six months after Sept. 11, according to publicist Tina Jacobson.
After giving birth to her daughter, Morgan, in January 2002, Beamer went on to write "Let's Roll!: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage," a book about her husband and her struggle to deal with her grief after his death. She also co-founded the Todd M. Beamer Foundation, an organization designed to help children who had lost their parents in the 9/11 attacks.
The foundation, which was based in Princeton, N.J., changed its name to Heroic Choices in 2004 and expanded its focus to help non-9/11-impacted children dealing with trauma.
Heroic Choices, however, began to encounter trouble in the mid-2000s.
"The farther you get away from a charity created on a specific day ... the harder it is for charities to create funds as a result of an event," Heroic Choices chair William Beatty said in a February 2007 interview.
It is unclear whether or not Heroic Choices is still in operation, with the phone number previously listed to the organization no longer in service and its Web domain now inactive.
Beamer, who was once on the board of Heroic Choices, and her publicist, Tina Jacobson, declined to talk to msnbc.com. Beamer has made very few, if any, public speeches or appearances since 2007.
Her reticence came after rumblings that her frequent appearances showed someone too enamored of media attention. In addition, she and the Todd M. Beamer Foundation also were criticized for attempting to trademark the phrase "Let's Roll," The application was successful and the phrase was subsequently licensed it to Wal-Mart, the Florida State Football team and others.
Beamer may have disappeared from the spotlight, but Doug MacMillan, identified as a friend of Todd Beamer and founder of "Heroic Choices, Friends of Todd Beamer," will speak at a 9/11 remembrance event in West Chester, Ohio. MacMillan said he left Heroic Choices in 2004.
Bob Beckwith (NYC fireman embraced by President Bush)
As Ground Zero still smoldered just days after the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush stood with a bullhorn in one hand and his arm around retired New York City Fire Department firefighter Bob Beckwith — instantly making Beckwith an iconic image of the nation's strength and resilience in the wake of the attacks.
Beckwith, 69 at the time, was inspired to help in the rescue efforts at Ground Zero after he learned that one of his former colleague's sons was among the hundreds of missing firefighters. A few days after the attacks, Beckwith went down to the footprint of the towers and convinced authorities at the heavily guarded perimeter of the site to let him pass. They did, and he began working to find survivors.
Then a Secret Service agent asked Beckwith to jump up on a partially buried fire truck to make sure it was safe, Beckwith told msnbc.com in a recent interview. Bush also climbed up on the site. "You OK, Mr. President?" Beckwith asked as he began to climb off the rig. Bush turned around and responded, "Where do you think you're going? You're staying right here."
The crowd began chanting "U.S.A., U.S.A." As the cheers died down, Bush started speaking. Someone from the crowd yelled that they couldn't hear the president. Bush, with his arm still draped around Beckwith, shouted into his bullhorn, "I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."
The president's words were met with whooping and hollering from the crowd.
Beckwith, 79, now speaks and raises money for the New York Firefighters Burn Center Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to advancing burn care, research and prevention. He has six kids and 10 grandchildren, and lives with his wife in Baldwin, Long Island, where he's been for the last 54 years.
In addition to the burn center, Beckwith helps coordinate the annual StephenSillerTunneltoTowers 5Krun, scheduled for Sept. 25 this year. He and his wife hand out bottled water to the runners as they come out of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.
Beckwith, who retired from FDNY's Ladder 164 firehouse in Queens in 1994 after 29 years of service, doesn't talk too much with his family about what happened at ground zero. "Just to the media," he said.
Several newspapers and TV stations sought him out a few months ago, when news broke of Osama bin Laden's death. "It took them a long time [to find bin Laden]," Beckwith told the New York Post in May, "but when you are looking for a needle in a haystack, it takes a long time."
"I was very glad that he was taken out by the Navy Seals," he told msnbc.com. "I was in the Navy."
Every September 11 since 2002, Beckwith has been going to a memorial at Point Lookout on Long Island. This year, he will attend the commemoration ceremony at ground zero.
"It will be my first time going on 9/11 at ground zero," he said.
Beckwith says 9/11 is comparable to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which he remembers hearing about as a child.
"It's something that's going to stay with us," he said. "They hit us in our back yard."
And President Bush?
Beckwith has kept in touch. The retired firefighter has gone to White House Christmas parties and received a letter from Bush when the former president learned Beckwith's daughter had cancer. The former firefighter, who was not always in Bush's court when it came to politics, also attended Bush's exit speech to the nation in January 2009. "He's a nice, regular guy, President Bush, he's a nice person," Beckwith said.
Andrew Card (whispered news of attacks to President Bush)
White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, then 54, was the man who broke the news of the enormity of the attacks to President George W. Bush. A much-published photo showed the president reacting with surprise as Card whispered in his ear.
During Bush's visit to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., news had reached him that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center in what appeared to be an accident involving be a single-engine aircraft.
When the second tower was struck, Card approached the president and whispered, "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack." Card then stepped away and waited for the president to excuse himself, which he did after several minutes of listening to second-graders reading a book.
When Card whispered the news of the 9/11 attacks into President Bush's ear, the best he could do was to remain "calm and collected," he told msnbc.com in 2010.
"Obviously, September 11, 2001, changed an awful lot of things for America and the world and, yes, it changed me as well," he said. But Card said his most memorable day in the White House was not 9/11, but Sept. 14, 2001, when he traveled to New York City and ground zero with President Bush.
What he'll always remember, Card said, was when the mother of George Howard, a Port Authority police officer killed in the attacks, gave President Bush the badge worn by her late son, asking him never to forget. Bush carried the badge with him as a reminder.
Four and half years later, Card — who worked seven days a week and went down as one of the longest-serving chiefs of staff of all time — announced he would leave office in March 2006, after six years in the notoriously tough job.
A former executive at General Motors, Card returned to the private sector, where he sits on the board of directors of the railroad operator Union Pacific. In 2007, he also joined the public relations company Fleishman-Hillard as a senior counselor. And in July this year, Forbes reported that Card was joining the board of directors of cigarette maker Lorillard Inc., the nation's third-biggest tobacco company. Card also serves as acting dean of The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.
"I'm honored that President Bush asked me to help," Card said of the Texas A&M appointment. He said he felt blessed to be on a college campus and see how engaged young people are.
"The future is theirs," Card said. "To be involved in academia right now is sort of exciting."
After Sen. Edward Kennedy died in August 2009, Card, a native of Massachusetts, considered running for Kennedy's Senate seat but ultimately opted to step out of the race.
But Card hasn't completely ruled out politics from his future. "I want government to work and I want it to work well," he said. "I hope I will never give up interest in politics."
Card, who describes himself as a "red, white and blue, apple pie kind of guy" has been married to the Rev. Kathleen Card for 44 years. They have three children and six grandchildren together. Card's home base is now College Station, Texas.
And though he has sometimes drawn flak for his candid criticism of the Obama administration, Card was complimentary of the president's actions in the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. "It was a courageous act," he said.
This year, Card said he plans to be in New York for the 10-year commemoration of the attacks.
"It's about the promises we made to never forget," he said.
Howard Lutnick (Cantor Fitzgerald CEO)
The hard-nosed Cantor Fitzgerald CEO lost 658 out of his 960 New York employees in the 9/11 attacks. No one who was in the company's offices, occupying floors 101-105 of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, before 9 a.m. on Sept. 11 survived.
In a twist of fate, Lutnick was not in the office that morning because he was taking his son to his first day of kindergarten. But, while that saved his life, his brother and almost all of Cantor's stock and bond traders, as well as the accounting, human resources and legal departments were killed.
That evening, surviving Cantor employees dialed into a conference call to consider either closing the firm or rebuilding it. They chose renewal, according to a company statement, in part to help the families of their friends and colleagues who perished.
Meanwhile, the notoriously tough corporate titan wept on TV and promised to take on a new mission in life: To take care of the families of his dead employees. Lutnick's compassionate side appeared to be short-lived, however. On Sept. 15, just four days after the attacks, Lutnick stopped paychecks to all of the employees who had died. The victims' families were outraged.
"I needed my bankers to know that I was in control," Lutnick told New York Magazine two months after the attacks. "That I wasn't sentimental and that I was no less motivated or driven to make my business survive."
Four days later, though, Lutnick promised to take on a new mission in life: To take care of the families of his dead employees, announcing a compensation plan that would share 25 percent of profits with families for the next five years plus 10 years of health insurance.
By all accounts, Lutnick has made good on his promises.
According to a statement provided by the company's communications office, Cantor Fitzgerald regained profitability by the fourth quarter of 2001, and has since become a global financial service provider specializing in equity and fixed income capital markets, as well as investment banking, prime brokerage, commercial real estate financing, gaming technology and other services.
Through the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, the company says it distributed more than $180 million of its earnings to the families during the five years after 9/11 and will continue to provide health insurance to them until Oct. 19, 2011. Cantor also provided the families with access to lawyers to file insurance claims, created family support groups and holds a family memorial service each Sept. 11. This year thousands are expected to attend the firm's service in New York's Central Park.
Lutnick, meanwhile, continues to serve as chairman and CEO of Cantor as well as holding the same positions at BGC Partners, Inc., a global brokerage business servicing the wholesale financial markets that separated from Cantor in 2008. He serves on numerous boards, including that of his alma mater, Haverford College, and that of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
According to the company statement, Lutnick says one of his greatest honors is that adult children of Cantor employees who were lost on 9/11 are now coming to work for the firm.
Three firemen with flag at Ground Zero
The photograph is perhaps the most iconic taken at ground zero: In it, three New York City firefighters — Daniel McWilliams, George Johnson and William "Billy" Eisengrein — stand amid the ruins of the twin towers late in the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001 to hoist a jerry-rigged American flag.
The image, captured by Thomas E. Franklin, a staff photographer for The Record in Bergen County, N.J., was quickly picked up by national newspapers, magazines and television networks. Many felt it was reminiscent of Joe Rosenthal's image of the Marines raising a flag on Iwo Jima during World War II.
As the story goes, one of the firefighters, Williams, saw the American flag attached to a yacht that was docked on the Hudson River and grabbed it. On his walk back to Ground Zero, Williams was joined by Johnson, also in his ladder company, and Eisengrein, a friend he grown up with on Staten Island. The three spotted a flagpole about 20 feet above street level and climbed up to raise the flag as Franklin captured the image from 100 feet away at about 5 p.m. on the afternoon of 9/11.
"They didn't know that the picture was taken," Franklin told msnbc.com in a recent interview. "I was doing my job, which was to document this historic but horrible event. They did what they did and I did what I did and the picture happened. And that's it. It's a moment in time."
Six months after the attacks, in March 2002, McWilliams, Johnson, Eisengrein and Franklin joined President George W. Bush in the Oval Office when he unveiled the image as a special U.S. postal stamp to raise funds for families of emergency workers killed or permanently disabled as a result of the terrorist attacks. The Federal Emergency Management Agency raised around $10 million through the stamp, Franklin said.
The photo was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and won numerous national photojournalism awards.
Ten days after it was raised, the flag was taken down and brought to Yankee Stadium where it was signed by then-Gov. George Pataki, then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and other top officials. It was then reportedly taken to the USS. Theodore Roosevelt, the aircraft carrier that was deployed to launch the initial strikes against al Qaida in Afghanistan from the Arabian Sea.
After that, it disappeared. Some speculate it was stolen.
All three of the firefighters featured in the iconic image are still working for the New York City Fire Department, according to the FDNY press office, which said the trio want "nothing to do" with requests for media interviews. However, the press office gave the following bare-bones updates:
McWilliams, now 44, is currently a lieutenant with Battalion 37 in Brooklyn. He has worked with the FDNY for 19 years and lives on Long Island.
Johnson, now 45, has also worked for the FDNY for 19 years and was recently promoted to battalion chief in Brooklyn.
Eisengrein, now 46, is a firefighter working out of the Rescue 2 station in Brooklyn. He has been with the FDNY for 25 years.
Franklin, the photographer who captured the image, still works for The Record in New Jersey. He is now the paper's multimedia editor and video producer. Married with a son, he also teaches photojournalism at Ramapo College in New Jersey.
Most days, Franklin, 45, shoots brief video reports for the Web, but he also works on in-depth pieces. His latest project focuses on9/11 as seen and heard by the photographers who covered the events that day. Franklin, who interviewed both professional and amateur photographers who captured iconic images, said he aimed to release the 13-minute-long documentary before Sept. 11. "There's real value in retelling what happened," he said.
On the day news broke of Osama bin Laden's killing, Franklin went to ground zero and produced a video for The Record, saying that he didn't think it would take almost ten years to track down bin Laden.
"I felt a sense of relief when I heard the news that bin Laden was dead," he said.
Franklin said he'll attend the 10th anniversary ceremony as a photojournalist, covering the event for The Record.
"The events of Sept. 11 will never be forgotten," he said. "That was a murder scene, the scene where thousands of innocent people died."
Coleen Rowley (FBI whistleblower)
The FBI's chief legal adviser in Minneapolis for more than a decade, Coleen Rowley, then 46, was involved in the investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was already considered a potential terrorist threat because of flight training he had received in the United States. Rowley pushed for a search warrant for Moussaoui's laptop computer, a request repeatedly denied by FBI headquarters.
Eventually, Moussaoui, who would become known as "the 20th hijacker," was arrested for an immigration violation on Aug. 15, 2001 and his ties to radical fundamentalist Islamic groups were soon confirmed by the French intelligence service. Rowley would later call Moussaoui's arrest a "missed opportunity" for American investigators to unravel and possibly prevent the 9/11 plot. (Moussaoui was later convicted for his role in 9/11.)
In 2002, Rowley testified before the 9/11 Commission and the Senate Judiciary Committee about what she considered to be critical lapses by the FBI. In a 13-page memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller, Rowley wrote: "I feel that certain facts, including the following, have, up to now, been omitted, downplayed, glossed over and/or mischaracterized in an effort to avoid or minimize personal and/or institutional embarrassment on the part of the FBI and/or perhaps even for improper political reasons."
As a result of her public testimony, Rowley was among the three whistleblowers named Time magazine's "Persons of the Year" (along with Sherron Watkins of Enron and Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom).
Stepping down as chief legal adviser in the FBI's Minneapolis office to become a special agent once again in 2003, Rowley retired a year later after 24 years with the agency. She now lives with her husband and four children in Apple Valley, Minn. and occasionally writes for The Huffington Post.
Her bio on the site says Rowley also speaks to groups ranging from school children to civic organizations on two topics: ethical decision-making and "balancing civil liberties with the need for effective investigation."
In February 2005, Rowley was nominated to serve on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a five-person body set up by the 9/11 Commission to advise the executive branch on laws and policies implemented to protect the United States against terrorism. The Bush administration, however, did not select her for the board.
The following year, Rowley ran an unsuccessful campaign for Congress as a Democrat, losing to Republican incumbent John Kline in Minnesota's 2nd District.
Rowley is now a member of the steering committee of Come Home America, a group "united in their alarm about the destructive consequences of our country's runaway militarism."
Come Home America staged an anti-war protest at the Iowa Straw Poll in August with the Des Moines Register newspaper reporting that protesters held signs reading, "Support Children. End War," "W.A.R: Wasted American Resources," and "U.S. is not broke, just broken priorities."
"We support the troops," Rowley told the Iowa paper. "We are against runaway military spending. It is bankrupting this country and subverting our laws."
Bernard Kerik (New York City police chief)
Though much in the shadow of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik was lauded for his role in coordinating the city's response to the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center.
Kerik, who was 46 at the time, was a veteran law enforcement officer when he was tapped to head the largest police force in the United States. In addition to being praised for his handling of the crisis at Ground Zero, Kerik had gained a name for cutting crime in New York and improving police relations with minority communities.
However, Kerik, who testified before a Senate subcommittee and pushed for legislation that would help the FBI share information with local officials, announced a month later that he would not remain in his position when Giuliani left office in January 2002.
"'I have to look at what I have done throughout my life," Kerik said in a November 2001 news conference, "and what I have been through in the last eight years, most importantly the last year, and then the last eight weeks. I think you have to set priorities in your life, and my priorities right now are focused toward my family and the future."
It was a future that appeared bright.
Immediately after leaving office, Kerik became a senior vice president at Giuliani Partners, the consulting firm founded by his former boss. And in May 2003 Kerik was appointed as the interim minister of interior to Iraq with responsibility for overseeing post-invasion reconstruction efforts. He also served as senior policy adviser to Paul Bremer, the U.S. presidential envoy to Iraq.
And that's where the problems began.
In his book "Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq," author George Packer reported that Kerik "went home after just three months, leaving almost nothing behind." And in an interview with the New York Daily News, retired U.S. Army General Ricardo Sanchez said Kerik's efforts to train Iraqi police were "a waste of time and effort."
Bremer, on the other hand, called Kerik "streetwise and no-nonsense" in his memoir "My Year in Iraq." And in 2004, President George W. Bush nominated Kerik to lead the Homeland Security Department, praising him as a "dedicated, innovative reformer who insists on getting results."
But very soon after, several issues came to light that doomed the nomination, including tax and immigration violations regarding a former nanny, questionable timing in the sale of stocks, rumors of an extramarital affair, allegations of misusing police property for personal gain and improper reporting of gifts.
As a result of the disclosures, Kerik withdrew his nomination and resigned from Giuliani Partners. He then started The Kerik Group LLC, a group focusing on crisis and risk management, a few months later and was chairman of the company until June 2009.
Kerik's rocky road was only to get worse. In February 2010, he was sentenced to four years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to eight felonies, including tax fraud and lying to the White House over his Homeland Security nomination. The judge in the case said that although Kerik acted in the "highest tradition of a public servant" on 9/11, "The fact that Mr. Kerik would use that event for personal gain and aggrandizement is a dark place in the soul for me."
Kerik is married with two young daughters. Before going to jail, he was known for being active on social media, tweeting @BernardKerik and blogging at bernardkerik.blogspot.com, but his online activity has almost ceased since he entered a medium-security prison in Maryland in May 2010.
This year, Kerik has only blogged twice, first on the day bin Laden's death was announced, and two days later, calling for unity over politics.
"To my fellow Republicans and conservatives I say: Stop whining and give the President the credit he deserves," he wrote. "A better outcome happens only in the movies."
Osama bin Laden (terrorism mastermind)
Head of the al-Qaida terrorist organization, Osama bin Laden was soon named the prime suspect in the 9/11 attacks and President George W. Bush quickly vowed bin Laden would be captured "dead or alive."
Already wanted for his alleged role in the 1998 coordinated bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, as well as the 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in Yemen, bin Laden was the subject of a $25 million bounty offered by the United States.
On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed inside his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs in a covert operation ordered by President Obama. Shortly after his death, bin Laden's body was buried at sea, ending a manhunt that spanned almost a decade.
"Justice has been done," Obama declared the same day as crowds formed outside the White House to mark the occasion. Hundreds more waved American flags at ground zero in New York.
Bin Laden, 54, was shot in the left eye, NBC News' Savannah Guthrie reported citing an unnamed U.S. official.
With Islamic tradition calling for a body to be buried within 24 hours, finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist was difficult, a senior administration official said in explaining why the terrorist's body was dropped into the Indian Ocean.
Two Obama administration officials told the Associated Press that DNA evidence shows the body was bin Laden's with 99.9 percent confidence.
Other U.S. officials said one of bin Laden's sons and two of his most trusted couriers were also killed, as was an unidentified woman.
Al Qaida remains in existence, with the new leader being bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, 59, an Egyptian physician. The terrorist organization has pledged to keep fighting the United States and avenge the death of bin Laden, which it acknowledged for the first time on May 6, 2011, in an Internet statement apparently designed to convince followers that it will remain intact after its founder's demise.


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2014-15 Season
Received All-SoCon honors, while being named to the SoCon Academic Honor Roll … Played in eight tournaments and posted a pair of top-5 finishes … Missed portion of the season due to injury … Recorded a 73.39 scoring average, while totaling 11 rounds of par or better and three in the 60s … Finished third at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate (4-under-par 209) and was fourth at the weather-shortened Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate at Blackthorn (5-under-par 139).
2014 Summer
Enjoyed a successful summer tour as he won the Delaware State Golf Association Amateur Championship, Delaware Open and Eastern Amateur ... Hickman won the Eastern Amateur with a record-breaking score of 22-under-par 258, while also setting 18, 36, 54, and 72-hole scoring records ... He also claimed the 2014 Delaware Open title with a 13-under-par 200 (69-66-65) en route to winning by five strokes ... Hickman began the summer tri-fecta by winning the Delaware State Golf Association Amateur Championship ... the Buccaneer golfer carded a 3-under-par 281 to be the only player in red figures for the tournament ... Hickman also finished 18th in the Porter Cup with a final round of 66.
2013-14 Season
Played in all 13 tournaments for the Bucs … Posted two top-10 finishes – tied for seventh at the Atlantic Sun Championship and tied for eighth at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate … Ranked third on the team in stroke average (73.8), while his lowest round of the year was a 68 in round two of the Puerto Rico Classic … Won the 2014 Delaware State Golf Association Amateur Championship … Ranked second on the team in par-5 scoring (4.89).
2012-13 Season
Played in all 11 tournaments during his first season with the Bucs … top finish came at the Sea Best Invitational – tied for ninth (76-76-71 – 223) from the PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass … fired his lowest round of the season in his second collegiate tournament as he carded a 2-under 69 in the third round of the Mason Rudolph Championship … recorded 10 rounds of par or better and totaled 90 birdies.
Won the Delaware State Golf Association's Amateur Championship by 21 strokes after firing a 20-under-par 268.
Prior to ETSU
A four-year letterwinner for head coach William Darrin at The Blue Ridge School, will come to Johnson City with plenty of accolades during his junior career … ranked the top 2012 junior in both Maryland and Delaware, while also earning honorable mention honors for the USGA-AJGA Presidents' Leadership Award … qualified for the 2011 U.S. Junior Amateur, where he was 55th in stroke play before losing 1-down in the match play round of 64 … won the Delaware Junior Amateur Championship the last three years, while being named the 2010, 2011, and 2012 Delaware Junior Player of the Year … was selected to the Delaware Golf Association Williamson Cup Team in 2009, 2010 and 2011, while placing third in 2010 … finished top-10 at the 2010, 2011, and 2012 Delaware Amateur Championship (second in 2012), while also posting several top-10 finishes in AJGA events … during his career at The Blue Ridge School, Hickman has been selected four times a VISAA Division I All-State performer, as well as being a four-time First Team All-VIC selection … finished third at the 2010 and fifth at the 2012 All Virginia Independent Conference Tournament.
Born September 10, 1993...grandson of Mel and Linda Hickman...majoring in interdisciplinary studies.


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This book showed up on my door step at the perfect moment. I was having a hard time motivating myself to get back in the kitchen. I felt all cooked out!! Pesach seemed to have exhausted my creative spirit. But PERSIAN FOOD from THE NON-PERSIAN BRIDE was just what I needed to restart my engine. I needed something completely different and Reyna Simnegar provided it. As her subtitle (AND OTHER KOSHER SEPHARDIC RECIPES YOU WILL LOVE!) suggests, the recipes were not solely Persian. I tried my hand at homemade Chummus, Babaganoush and Matbucha. They were all a big hit, especially the later two. I'm not in general a big fan of Babaganoush but somehow when I roasted the eggplant myself and it was freshly made, the taste was much more vibrant and flavorful. The Matbucha was superb with diced jalapeno adding a nice kick. I also tried the Moroccan-Style Beet Salad; a big favorite with me especially since I love anything with cumin and cilantro. I don't really eat meatballs but the rest of the gang really enjoyed the Persian Mega Meatballs (I actually caught someone eating them directly out of the refrigerator!) I've always wanted to make Persian rice, with the crusty bottom, but I wasn't feeling quite that ambitious so I skipped the book's Persian Rice Tutorial and made instead the Oven-Baked Super-Easy Basmati Rice with Dried Cranberries and Saffron. Super-Easy were the magic words and they were accurate. But it wasn't just easy, it was delicious also (and I was the one that could be caught sneaking bites as it sat on the counter cooling). I can't wait to make the Matbucha again (maybe it will become a regular at our Shabbos table) and to try some of her other recipes. I'm especially appreciative that this new cookbook got me out of my slump. Try it; it may work for you too!!
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